PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Inter-Rater Reliability, Science Studies, Outline Of Physical Science
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Established prototypical sciences (physics, chemistry, biology: study some phenomena that will obey some natural law that. Meteorology applied physicists, predict things based on the physics) operates in the universe. As technology improves we can make more detailed. Goal is to figure out what are those laws that run the functions (not human conscious) observations universe. Symbiosis between technology and: reductionist language for defining and ultimately explaining the phenomena. Physical science have a specific way of forming these rules but use symbols and they reduce more complex constructs to precise relationships reductionist language break down into lower order constructs. Consistent language of science: candidate science meshes linguistically with those levels of science immediately above and below. Once hypotheses are formulated difference of science from philosophy (no empirical evaluation of their ideas for the philosopher) Candidate science studies phenomena reflecting natural order in the universe: illustration. Find a representative sample of the population of interest.
